Beginning from the moment of birth, 700 new synapses or connections between brain cells are being formed every single second in all parts of the brain…that are responsible for everything from being able to regulate your feelings, to begin to learn language, to begin to understand how to interact with other children, to begin to solve problems. Joehly reaches for a toy above her. Connections that basically become the, the architecture and the foundation of who we are as people.

NAR: Johely is four months old. By the time she is three, her brain will have built trillions more connections than all the stars in our galaxy. Those intricate circuits start getting paved into wider, stronger highways, building the foundation for more complex skills like reasoning, impulse control, even compassion and trust.